n9yty
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12-18-2009
06:23 PM
No osx love for biftool? Why not?
Why no osx love for biftool? Sure doesn't seem like it would take much to provide one, especially given the linux version...
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newmediadude
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12-19-2009
08:47 AM
I second that!
I second this request.
- Marcelo
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fimion
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12-19-2009
10:55 AM
Re: No osx love for biftool? Why not?
thirded. very excited about all of this!
brantc
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12-19-2009
07:27 PM
Re: No osx love for biftool? Why not?
I 4th the motion. would hate to have to buy a PC 🙂

KennyJ
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12-19-2009
08:38 PM
Re: No osx love for biftool? Why not?
"brantc" wrote:
I 4th the motion. would hate to have to buy a PC 🙂
You could just run a linux distro.
-LD
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12-20-2009
06:41 PM
Re: No osx love for biftool? Why not?
VirtualBox and Linux. Both free and would be a good workaround.
bbefilms
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12-21-2009
08:19 PM
Re: No osx love for biftool? Why not?
Would appreciate if the devs could compile biftool for the Mac pronto..!
n9yty
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12-24-2009
12:23 PM
Re: No osx love for biftool? Why not?
"-LD" wrote:So, install a virtual machine and a whole separate OS install to run one simple binary that could easily be recompiled to run on osx? Although it would provide a solution if there were no other alternative, I'd really like to prod the Roku team to provide an osx binary so it can be done with a minimum of monkeying around.
VirtualBox and Linux. Both free and would be a good workaround.
bcl
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12-24-2009
12:51 PM
Re: No osx love for biftool? Why not?
Or just rewrite it in python 🙂 The format is documented.
bcl
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02-11-2010
09:07 PM
Re: No osx love for biftool? Why not?
I wrote one in python that runs on OSX and Linux, you can get it from here (note there is a 1-off error in line 118, remove the +1)